What Do You See?

An Irregular Heartbeat

This painting has no certain pattern or shape. Just random colours splattered everywhere and through the center is a white jagged line. Its suppose to represent a heartbeat. The message I tried to portray in those paining is that your life is colourful, be thankful for the vision your given and the heartbeat is to say your there, your alive.

Your Own Colourful Sea

In this painting, there are three fish and a whale. The water they are swimming in is in the pattern of a rainbow. ''ROY G B(i)V'' In this painting i tried to portray a family. The two top fishes are suppose to be the parents, and the one at the bottom. The whale is suppose to be a pet or a best friend. I would have added more fishes so that it would be like siblings, but there wasn't much room. I painted this photo in soft light colours so that it would represents that life is easy going and positive if you allow it to be. Don't make things complicated and just go with the flow! You have your family and friends around you who will always be there for you.



Are you Surreal?

So Close, But So Far Away

My Surrealism Portrait is very simple. It’s a photo of a sunset, taking from someone’s point of view by standing next to the water and on the sidewalk. In this assignment, we were required to place an egg, clock, streetlight and an egg with a clock on it. It was very hard finding a spot on this photo to place the objects! I had trouble trying to get it to balance and even out without anything taking the focus away from the egg (sun). Being able to change the opacity of the objects was very useful. With that I was able to somewhat an object in the sky and in the windows. In the sky there is an egg with a clock in it to show that time flies. I also tried to make it look like it was being pulled into the sunset because that means that the nights coming and the days over. I titled it, ‘So Close, But So Far Away’ because when I was placing in the streetlights it didn’t look right, but when I was fooling around with the sizes it suddenly looked like they were getting smaller the farther down the sidewalk it was. I then adjusted the lighting to the streetlights so that if you were to be standing there you could only see the shadow or figure of the streetlights. After I was finished and felt as though I’ve completed this assignment the first thing that came up in my mind was how close the sun was, but then again it was so far away. I believe this is by far the most complicated assignments we were given to do because it required a big imagination and patients.



Andy Warhol Style

For this assignment, I choose to use the most recent photo of myself taken off of Facebook. When we first started this assignment I was very confused and didn't know how to do anything! After fiddling around with the tools I found the threshold adjustment and finally got a start on my assignment. Cutting the background out was easier then I thought it was, ever since Mrs. Reidel taught the class about the 'Magnetic Lasso Tool' deleting things have become easy. I used to use the magic wand and take forever to remove a background !After picking out my colours, I realized that you can only hold two colours at once. I solved this problem by opening a word document and saving the code and opacity of the colour. At the end of it all, I am very satisfied in the outcome! :)

Karina's Advent Poster

Keeping Christ in Christmas

For our assignment, also known as our 'Advent Poster' I decided to create a mixed theme. One of the themes used for my poster is the beach in the winter time. I choose the beach because when you look out at a beach, you can't see the other side. It makes you wonder what’s out there, or what’s out there for me? It also shows that Christmas is coming soon, and that is the time of advent. There is a girl standing looking out at the beach in summer clothes. I choose to add her in the photo because it makes the picture have more meaning. It seems as if she's been wondering ever since summer, instead of winter. It has more meaning because she is looking out into the beach and there is also a picture I have added in of a cross. It is meant to portray that the girl is looking out into the beach and thinking and wondering about Christ out lord. I choose Luke 2:10-11 ''Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord,'' because since you can't see the girls facial expression it could look like she's afraid, hopeful and waiting for

Christ the Lord.

Black and White

The Leopard Print Bag 

The first picture I have taken is of a bag that belongs to a student that goes by the name of Chelsey. Her bag is unique and very colourful so I thought that if I were to change it into black and white it would have many different shades. I took the picture so that the bag was more in the picture then the wooden bench it is on because it could apply to one of the rules of thirds, which would be the one third over rule. The pattern on the bag is also very eye catching as well as the leather which turned to be a solid black.

The Endless Hallway

The second picture that I have taken is of the lockers in a hallway. At first when I saw it I thought it would just be another photo of a locker, but I remembered that it would not be coloured. I then thought of how the lighting from the lights would affect the shine on the lockers, and how the lockers seem to be darker the farther away it was. I like how the locker is upclose in one end, and gets smaller and darker on the other end. It reminds me of an endless hallway! Now that I have seen the outcome of this photo, it looks exactly how I pictured it too look. This photo also follows the rule of one third over.

Who's The New Kid?

This is the new kid that I have created. I used my face but changed the lips, to Nicki's lips and the eyes to Erin's. It was complicated to blend the skin tones together and make it look even. It looks better then that it had looked like before Mrs. Reidel taught me how to flatten my image, and use the clone stamp to even out the skin. In doing this assignment I found that the outcome of it was much better then my potato head! I didn't have a specific goal in doing this but I did hope it would at least look a bit realistic, which I find it somewhat does. If you glance at it really quickly, I find that it looks believe-able, but if you stare at it, not so much! The cheeks and lips are a little odd and didn't really fit in the way I would have liked them too. I am satisfied in what I have created and am glad I had a chance to make 'A New Kid In Class.'  :)

The New Mrs. Potato Head

Yesterday in Media Arts, we learned the basics of Adobe Photoshop. It was quite easy to use. I learned that naming every layer that is created was very convenient to find what parts I needed. The most complicated and frustrating part of doing this assignment was trying to blend in the parts to the egg. I'm fairly satisfied in the ''Mr. Potato Head'' that I have created, though more options would have been better. Overall, I enjoyed creating my own ''Mr. Potato Head'' and am thankful of the new skills I have learned in doing so.

I have chosen the background ''Toy Story 3'' because the thought of creating a ''Mr. Potato Head'' made me think of this movie. It is one of my favorite movies of all time and hopefully everyone else has seen it too.
Woody's the best! :)

A Little Bit About Me

Hey, my names Karina Le. I'm a senior at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Highschool. I've taken this class so that I can enhance my photoshop skills and computer skills. I would enjoy seeing what other artists see and hopefully will be able to create something of my own.

''The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.''

- Eric Gil

The artwork done by Josh Sommers is truely unique. He sees the world in a different point of view. The way he portrays what he sees in his artwork is very eye-catching and different. An example of this would be his painting of ''Curtis Granderson Playboy Spread.'' Simple things such as roots growing out from the ground is enough to inspire Josh Sommers to create an amazing piece of artwork. After looking through a variety of artwork done by Josh Sommers I would have to say my favorite would be ''Blossoming.'' In this piece of artwork, I believe he tried to portray that everyone has a future, and everyone has a purpose in life.

I have read through the Studio Rules and agree to whatever is needed or required to keep this class

up and going!

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

- Oscar Wilde

The quote written by Oscar Wilde is a very powerfull quote. I agree to what this quote is saying because artists are able to see and find beauty in everything. If an artist was to create a piece of artwork from just what they see with the bare eye, it wouldn't make it any different. Though some artists go beyond that and create what they see, and that is what real art is about. Everyone sees the world in their own way, some express it in artwork and others express it in words.